He won his seat by pandering to the Tea Party and playing the role of underdog. Now, he’s peddling a book, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances. It’s a memoir about being sexually molested and abused and committing the crimes of theft and arson as a child. He stole food from the local A&P, but he doesn’t think folks need welfare anymore. He stole a suit to wear to a school dance and record albums. He got busted for the latter crime, andJudge Samuel Zoll is credited for turning around the life of a juvenile delinquent.

He also credits Judy Patterson, a social studies teacher, who lectured him about speaking disrespectfully to a female student. His basketball coach helped him get a scholarship to Tufts University. He claims basketball was his therapy and salvation. He frequently broke into the school gym to shoot hoops to work off his anger, and he told his secrets to the ball at night in bed.

I was . . . ravenously hungry, to the point where my stomach would often ache, and I would sit on the couch with my knees drawn up to my chest, as if I could physically shrink the space between my lungs and my abdomen.

As a survivor, he answers to his own blunt ideology of self-preservation.

Sen. Brown funded law school at Boston College Law School by modeling. He was featured as one of Cosmopolitan Magazine’s sexiest men:

He met his wife Gail Huff, an ABC correspondent, via modeling gigs. He joined the Massachusetts National Guard and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the JAG corps. According to Time‘s mini-biography, the senator owns a home and three condos in Massachusetts as well as another home in Rye, New Hampshire and a time share in Aruba.

Some political pundits have called him a Reagan Republican. In some respects, I think this is accurate. He certainly has the “fuck you, I got mine” attitude of the Reagan years. I was so excited to hear that a Republican U.S. Senator broke the silence about sexual and child abuse. But, I was equally disappointed that his childhood experiences didn’t leave him with more compassion for people now walking in his shoes. He grinned and seemed to be bragging on 60 Minutes about his youthful criminal past without expressing a drop of remorse about the losses to the business and property owners.

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3 responses to “Sen. Scott Brown: Against All Odds”

Obviously, Brown did not study Economics 101, because during a recession, unemployment benefits and welfare benefits have to be increased and extended. If he thinks that people don’t need welfare, then, he does not know what he is doing, and should not be a senator. This guy is a jerk.

Actually, I have been around a significant number of welfare kings. . .people like billionaire Paul Allen who receive enormous welfare benefits for doing nothing on their corporate farms. . .the same legislation that funds the food stamp program.

Before you come on this site to blast me anonymously, I suggest that you better educate yourself on the issues. I don’t suffer fools. And, as an abuse survivor, I will call prominent survivors out for not paying it forward and for lacking compassion and empathy.

60% of the people on welfare rolls are abuse survivors who are working like hell to become financially self-sufficient. So, please take your racist attitudes to a site where they will be welcome.

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